Bug#348501: /usr/bin/startkde: No manpage for startkde, problems with x-session-manager/update-alternatives

[Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn@debian.org>]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 06:16, Philipp Grau wrote:
> Package: ksmserver
> Version: 4:3.3.2-1sarge1
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/bin/startkde
> Tags: patch
>
> I am setting startkde to my default x-session-manager:
>
> update-alternatives --set x-session-manager /usr/bin/startkde
>
> then /etc/cron.daily/man-db exposes the following waring:
>
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-session-manager.1.gz is a dangling
> symlink
>
> this is because startkde has no manpage. gnome-session and xfce4-session
> provide a manpage that is registered as a slave in /etc/alternatives. So
> when I do update-alternatives to startkde the link for the manpage is
> broken. I have written a small manpage for startkde (which is based on
> xfce4-session(1) and the contents of startkde), and included a small
> patch for ksmserver.postinst.

Looks good, thanks. This will be in the next upload.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin